3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture JEDIHumanitiesUpper Division
This course is a broad survey of concert dance history predominately in the 20th and 21st century in Western cultures. The direct relationship and influence of the culture, training, choreographic, and performative records of dance practices, to socio-political ideologies of gender, race, sexuality, and national identities will be the area of investigation. Students will read, watch, research and actively participate in discussion regarding important dance figures, movements, eras, and their social and cultural reverberations. Dance's relationship to other art practices throughout history will also be a subject of lecture and discussion.
Learning Outcomes1Demonstrate understanding of the foundational underpinnings of concert dance history.
2Identify specific choreographers and their works of art in oral and written communication.
3Recognize concert dance contexts in order to speak and write clearly about them.
4Demonstrate an awareness of the relationships and interactions between dance and culture.
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